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The Black Swan
I just finished reading The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. I first learned about Taleb some years ago in Malcolm Gladwell's profile of him called: Blowing Up. On Taleb's home page he links to many other articles about him, but he distances ( Read more... ) -
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It's been a stressful time job-wise, for both of us, and I've been asking myself some tough questions about my life and career: Fighter, Wizard or theif? Elf, Dwarf, or human? leather, chainmail or plate? Tower of Terror or Dungeon of Despair ( Read more... ) -
Better than butter
I was introduced to flax oil three years ago. Since then I've eaten it more and more and now it's to the point where I prefer flax oil to butter on my toast.
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Low Noon
This time of year, the sun crosses low in the south so that it's like the golden hour all day long. When the sky is clear, and the breeze is warm, this is my favorite weather in my favorite season. I have to go outside, out among the gold-green of the poplars, the aching red of the maple, and the blazing green of firs and pines and cedars. They're ( Read more... ) -
quick update
Sorry everyone, I did not mean to lead anyone astray with my last entry (friends only), nothing particularly bad happened-just had a tough day at work, that's all. Everything is more-or-less okay now, and all things considered, life is swell.
I recently watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire which was kind of weak actually, I'm working on a ( Read more... ) -
Pop Fizz Mix
I've been working on this mix list for a long time. I forget how I came across the first song but it got me to find the second and after listening to them back to back a lot I started adding others. I'm not sure I'm 100% on it but I'm at last I'm pleased enough to put it on CD for personal use in my car. Here's the track list:
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Another chance for Dick
Many years ago I saw the movie Blade Runner and I liked it. I read the book it was based on: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick and I liked it.
Maybe a year or two later, I watched the movie again. I didn't like it. I wasn't sure what I liked about it in the first place. I read the book again and I found I didn't like it either ( Read more... ) -
Readings
A while back a few of you put up your summer reading lists and now I'm going to. Except that, while looking back I kept seeing how almost all the books I've read informed each other. There's all sorts of little trends of themes and subject matter. I had to reach back to the last twelve months to find a book that seemed to set things off.
There's a ( Read more... ) -
Heartbreak in the Ninth
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